Effect of Priming Cooperation or Individualism on a Collective and Interdependent Task: Changeover Speed in the 4 × 100-meter Relay Race

• Autores: Clémentine Bry, Thierry Meyer, Dominique Oberlé
• Localización: Journal of sport and exercise psychology, ISSN 0895-2779, Vol. 31, Nº. 3, 2009, págs. 380-389
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Priming effects of cooperation vs. individualism were investigated on changeover speed within a 4 x 100-m relay race. Ten teams of four adult beginner athletes ran two relays, a pretest race and an experimental race 3 weeks later. Just before the experimental race, athletes were primed with either cooperation or individualism through a scrambled-sentence task. Comparing to the pretest performance, cooperation priming improved baton speed in the exchange zone (+30 cm/s). Individualism priming did not impair changeover performance. The boundary conditions of priming effects applied to collective and interdependent tasks are discussed within the implicit coordination framework.